Summary:
1. Enhanced Storage Unification: NVMe 2.1 specifications were published at Flash Memory Summit 2024, aiming to enhance storage unification across AI, cloud, client, and enterprise environments.
2. Key Updates and Features:
- Live Migration: Enables live migration of PCIe NVMe controllers between NVM subsystems.
- Data Placement: Introduces host-directed data placement for SSDs, ensuring backward compatibility.
- Processing Offload: Supports offloading some host processing tasks to NVMe storage devices.
- Network Boot: Adds a network boot mechanism for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF).
- Security and Management: Includes support for TLS 1.3, host management of encryption keys, and dynamic creation of exported NVM subsystems from physical resources.
3. Security Enhancements: Supports centralized authentication verification, granular encryption with Key Per I/O, and post-sanitization media verification.
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